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Elizabethan Age Drama Dr Faustus #Act 5#

Act 5

 

Act 5 Scene 1

 

Faustus end is approaching as he already given all his goods to Wagner. Wagner is puzzled. Wagner is a fun loving person as suggested in Act 1 Scene 2.

 

Faustus accompanied with Mephistopheles and three scalars. One of the scholars desires to see Helen (One of the most beautiful woman in world). Faustus full fills his scholar desire by summoning Helen by powerful magic words. The scholars are wonder stuck by seeing her beauty. They thank Faustus for his glorious event.

 

An old man rebukes Faustus for his sinful agreement with the devil.

 

Old man Suggestion

 

• He suggests Faustus to seek Christ kindness to wash away this guilt’s and appeal god for mercy.  Faustus feels scared as he is bound to go hell after the death.
• He gets a dragger from Mephistopheles but old man stops his to do suicide.
• He suggests him to despair his mind from Devil the angel hanging over his head will bless you a god grace and disappear considering over his sins.

 

Faustus fails to repent on old man suggestion because of his mental conflict.

 

Mephistopheles Action on suggestion

 

Mephistopheles calls him a conspirator against Lucifer and scared Faustus to tear him up.

Faustus begs for his offence and demands for renewal of bond by his blood.  He also suggests him to torture the old man soul.  However he cannot do so because old man has unflinching faith in god

Act 5 scene 2

 

The old man reappears again and criticizes Faustus for ignoring his suggestion of divine grace and to follow the path of necromancy. The devil appears and started giving physical torture to old man but his unflinching faith in god remains unshaken.

 

Act 5 Scene 3

 

Faustus feeling discomfort for committing of unpardonable sin and he ask his scholars to pray for him. The Scholars exit to next room.

 

Faustus appeal to nature

 

• He appeals the planet to halt the time so that he can repent to save his soul.
• He appeals stars and mountain to purify him so that he can enter the heaven.

 

Faustus appeal to God

 

• He thinks of God for mercy and asks to fix a limit of his damnation in the hell.  
• He thinks his body should be turned into air or water vapors which get lost in bosom of ocean.

 

Appearing of Devil

 

The devil appears with violent look Faustus cry in fear and devil takes him away.

 

Theme of the drama

 

A man should not practice things, which are not permitted by heaven.

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus #Act 4#

The scene begins with the speech of chorus. Faustus returns from the long journey. His friends receive him with warm regards. Faustus shares his experience and moments with them.

 

Act 4 Scene 1

 

Mr. Robin who is an Ostler (stableman) by profession has stolen one of the Faustus’s magic books for an idea to spell some magic words; at the same time his assistant Ralph has called him for a customer in stable.

 

He draws a circle and warns Ralph to keep away from it. Ralph feels happy when Robin claims him to provide quantity of spiced wine.

Act 4 Scene 2

 

Robin and Ralph stole a wine cup from bar. The barman tracks them and demanded to return the cup. The barman searches both of them feel hopeless because of Robin Magic. Then Robin decided to punish barman for his presumption. He spells some magic words and called summons (authoritative call to attend or do something) Mephistopheles, all of them get scared by his appearance. Robin returns the cup to the barman. Ralph asks Mephistopheles for forgiveness and bothered him, but devil transform them in dog and ape.

 

Act 4 Scene 3

 

The scene starts from the emperor palace at Innsbruck. King desires to see the Faustus magic. Faustus proofs his skills by showing the soul of Alexander and his mistress. One of the emperor knights make laugh and put some jeering remarks about the Faustus this makes Faustus annoyed and he make a promise to deal with knight later.

 

Faustus command Mephistopheles to bring the soul of Alexander and his mistress. The king feels surprised to see them. The Faustus do some magic and make the pair of horns on knight head for his insolence. When knight seem the pairs of horns on his head he started abusing and asked Faustus to remove the horns. Faustus answered him you are suitably paid for your audacity. However Faustus removes the horns on the behalf of the king but he warns the king’s knight (attendant) not to do so in future. King awarded Faustus according to his promise.

Act 4 Scene 4

 

Faustus prepares him to return Wittenberg at the same time a horse dealer arrives to buy the horse of Faustus. Faustus warns him not to take horse near water in any condition. Horse dealer leave Faustus for happy living with the horse but he haven’t follow the precautions and rode horse into water. Horse disappeared in water however he manages to come out of the water and wants to recover money from Faustus. He visit Faustus palace, here devil informed him not to disturb Faustus in the Sleep.  

 

Horse dealer was in hurry to recover money from Faustus. So he shouts in the ears of Faustus and pulls his leg. As a result leg comes out in his hand. Faustus cries for loosing his leg and ask Mephistopheles to call police. Horse dealer feels scared and paid 40 dollars as a compensation for pulling out the Faustus leg. Horse dealer feel relief from the tight corner and flight instantly.

At the same time Faustus receive the message to display the magic at Duke Court.

 

Act 4 Scene 5

 

After receiving the message Faustus leave for Duke Court. Duke longingly waits for the magic display of Faustus. Their Faustus offers to obtain any fruit for which the duchess Vanholt has a desire.  Duchess asks Faustus to bring ripe grapes which are available in only summer season so Faustus commands Mephistopheles to bring the grapes, with in a moment he brought a bunch of grapes from the countries of the east. Duke expresses his surprise at the wonder and offers Faustus a kind reward.

tragical history about Dr Faustus (Act 3)

Act 3

 

The scene starts with the speech of chorus. He started learning the secret of astronomy by studying heavenly bodies. He seats on chariot of dragon to trip all over the universe in eight days and studied Cosmography (origin of the Universe).

 

 Act 3 scene 1

 

He is visiting many places likes Naples , the golden Tomb of Virgil, the tunnel of Posilippo and cities of Venice etc.  He make the visit in Rome , there Mephistopheles describe the geography of the Rome city. He makes him self invisible and plays some magic tricks on Pope by snatching his dishes and drinks from his hands.

Dr Faustus Plot Overview by wbguy #Act 2#

Summary of the play

Act 2 Scene 1

Faustus is alone in the study and feeling mentally hopeless because of his inner consciousness troubles him.  He thinks about the god and decides to turn on the god again by making the church to the devil. He would offer lukewarm blood of new born babes.  Due to his mental conflict Good and Bad Angle appears again

  Suggestion of Good Angle

• Good angle suggest him to fall flat to the god.

  Suggestion of Bad Angle

• Bad angle suggest him to get wealth and honor of fascination as he desire the lordship of rich city of Emden.

  Faustus reacts on Bad Angle suggestion and thinks God will not harm him as long as devil is with him.

 

Signing of Bond with Lucifer

 

In Act 1 Scene 3 Mephistopheles exit for sanction of resolution offer by Faustus to Lucifer.

Lucifer agrees to buy his soul on the some condition by signing the bond with his blood.  While signing the bond his blood congeals (make or become semi-solid by cooling) but devil brings burning coal and dissolve his blood to complete his bond. There after he donate his soul to the Lucifer. While signing a bond Faustus also get inscription “Man run away” Faustus gets puzzled but he didn’t run.

 

 Presentation by Devil to Faustus

 

• Devil called others devil to entertain Faustus. The provide rich garments to the Faustus..
• They tell him, he had acquired the power of summons.
• Faustus Longs for the woman. Devil provides another devil in the form of mistress.
• They provide him a magic book with its help he could get great controls on human beings as well as elements. The book will also help him to acquire other great knowledge

Question by Faustus

• Faustus ask devil about the location of hell

  Reply

Devil reply hell is not a region. Hell is a condition in which one feels tortured.

Act 2 Scene 2

 

A Few years onwards Faustus again gets in mental conflict. He thinks of heaven as he feels deep sorrow about contracting with Lucifer. So he blames Mephistopheles for setting off the path of evil. He wants to apologize for his breaking of divine or moral law and have a strong wish or desire for decline further association with Lucifer. The two angles appear again and leave Faustus depart. Faustus heart feels impossible to step back. He hears fearful voice “as he already damned because he contract with Lucifer”.

 

He wants to suicide but he can not kill him self because of his joyous life discourage his mental conflict. 

 

Question of Faustus to Mephistopheles

 

Faustus Question

 

• Faustus asks about number of heaven and whether they are constitute in one globe?

 

Mephistopheles answer

 

• All the spheres are “mutually folded in each other Orb”. They travel jointly in one axis tree whose limit is known as Zodiac (belt of the heavens including all apparent positions of the sun, moon, and planets as known to ancient astronomers, and divided into twelve equal parts).

 

Faustus ask question about the agency that made the world. Mephistopheles refuses and warned Faustus not to ask questions that are against the kingdom of the hell. He also suggested him to think solely for the hell as he is already damned by contracting.

 

Faustus get annoyed with the answer of Mephistopheles and nick name him as “accused Spirit”

 

Angles suggestions for Faustus.

 

• After dissatisfactory answer of Mephistopheles, Good Angle whispers in Faustus ear and say god had made the world. It cause confusion in his heart but it is too late for step back normal. Good angle also suggest him there is not too late you can repentance.

 

• On this suggestion bad angle warns Faustus devil will tear him in two pieces

Faustus get mental distress after the suggestion of both angle he wants to free his soul, so call upon the Christ (also now treated as a name, given to Jesus) to save his soul but at the same time he confronted with Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub.  They warn him not to think of God. Faustus gets scared and assured that he will never think of god and heaven again

 

Lucifer provides him magic book by which he can turn in any shape.

 

My View

 

Dr Faustus feeling afraid of death, he thinks of god and heaven. Although he was being suggest in each Act of play.  

·        Act 1 (Scene 1) he ignores the Good Angle suggest him to study the Holy Scriptures.

·        Act 1 Scene 3 Mephistopheles suggest him information before commitment

·        Act 2 Scene 1 good angle suggest him to fall flat to god.

·        Act 2 Scene 1 he also got inscription “Man run away” but he didn’t run.

 

He is interpreted in every act by good suggestion but he ignores them.  After signing the bond he had become the puppet of Lucifer. Now he feels afraid of being damned. His blind faith confronted him to Lucifer and there he pleased not to think of god or heaven.

 

 

 

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe #Act 1#

Summary of the Drama

 

Act 1

Act 1 (Scene 1)

 

Dr Faustus belongs to low family and brought by his relatives in Wittenberg. He was theologian and attempts to over reach himself in the field of divinity.  He studied Necromancy (divination by supposed communication with the dead) and wonder about in his specialization.

 

The main comment about the Dr Faustus is “he was widely known as physician but he disapproves the sound knowledge of Medicines.”  Means he thinks beyond to the known studies. He can make spirits to bring the choicest item from any part of the world. He wants to be a great magician like Agrippa.

 

Angle Suggestions

• Good angle suggest him to study the scriptures (the bible or study dedicated to God)
• Bad angle suggest him to study the magic and become powerful like God on this earth.

 

Friends Suggestions

  Valdes and Cornelius

 

Faustus Reveal about the achievements of ravishing the study of magic to his friends. His friend suggest him following

 

• Valdes appreciates his decision and encourage him by saying “all element spirits will serve him”
• Cornelius suggests him to get more fame by his enviable magic study than the Delphic oracle (prediction) by virtue.

 

Here the Bad Angle and friends suggests him to study the magic and become powerful rather than to study the scripture of God. Dr Faustus ignored the Good Angle suggestion.

 

Act 1 Scene 2

  Two well wisher or Fellows of Dr Faustus were worried about him because they haven’t meet Dr Faustus for some time. They try to contact Dr Faustus and ask his servant Wagner but his servant puzzle them. Later they got the guess of Valdes and Cornelius interest in Dr Faustus black art magic. They decide to inform the president of University so that Dr Faustus can be taken out from such kind of Practice.

 

Characteristics of Wagner

 

• He is fun loving person.

 

Act 1 Scene 3

  On Suggestion of Valdes, Faustus decides to conjure in the Dark Grove. He draws a circle planet, stars and writes the name of Jehovah (a holy Saint). He determines himself and ready to conjure and led Mephistopheles (evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul in) to appear ugly. So he orders him to go back and dress in Franciscan Friar. Mephistopheles executes his command. Faustus feels happy for his achievement and obedience of Mephistopheles. He terms himself a “Conjure Laureate (mark of honor)”. He wants to extract promise from Devil to give service thought out the life. Devil (Mephistopheles) informs him to get the commitment from the Lucifer (all devils king, Chief ruler of all the devil of all the spirits) before promise.

Information by Mephistopheles before any commitment

• He informs Faustus his speeches were incidental (secondary) which let him to arrive here.
• He tells Faustus that the person who broke “Holy Trinity” (the three persons of the Christian Godhead (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)) is rushed by Lucifer Agent immediately.
• Lucifer was beloved angel of God and because he revolt against the god he was damned and doomed ever in the hell.

 

Before serving the Faustus, Devil have to ask Lucifer to accept the Faustus Proposal and exits for sanction.

 

My View

Dr Faustus is only a “Blind” (unwilling or unable to appreciate a factor) person in black art. Even he can’t conjure successfully.

As you heard the words “Man’s proud makes him blind” same you can find here. In Act 1 (Scene 1)good angel suggest him to study the scriptures but he refuse and conjure in dark grove on Friends Suggestions. He does so and incidentally he succeeds in doing so. Then Devil also guide him by providing example of Lucifer and his Revolt against God. But Faustus feels amazed and he ask devil to learn “Manly Fortitude” (Strength)

He tells Devil he is not afraid of damnation (eternal punishment in hell) and started prediction of good fortune with the help to Devil and wants to become the great emperor of the world.

 

Act 1 Scene 4  

Wagner feels sincerity and sympathy (a sharing of another's feelings.) for the clown (comic entertainer). He wants to employ clown to serve him because he was semi-naked and Semi-starved. Clown shows him unwillingness to serve him. He tries to frighten the clown. He orders the two magic words which were picked from the Faustus magic book and therefore clown accept the Wagner’s employment to follow and serve him.

 

Characteristics of Wagner

 

He is a clever person and knows how to undertake others; in Act 1 Scene 2 Wagner is shown as fun loving person and he befools Faustus students

EM FROSTER A passage to India

Description of Chandrapore City

 

The Novel begins with Chandrapore city which doesn’t have any amazing features expect the Marabar Caves. The people live in Chandrapore are Anglo Indians. The city is small in size and doesn’t contain any beauty.  As this story is about the colonial India, so British ruler has just tried to maintain commandment and regulation they have no desire to see the true nature.

 

The Critical Comments

 

In this Novel you will find British Rulers have just showed them superior among the Indians.

 

Chapter Summary and Comments

 

Chapter 2 Comment

 

1. At the beginning of the chapter Dr Aziz was called by the English Surgeon and when he reached his bungalow the surgeon had left bungalow without leaving any message side by side two English Women takes this Tanga  and Go away.

My View

 

This really feels disgusting when a person is coming without eating food in one call and reaches to person with limited mean of transport and person leave with out dropping any message. This shows the reputation of Indian person in colonial India. Where as Women are known for there kindness they too have no respect for Dr Aziz.

 

1. As I commented above about the two ladies. All the fingers of a hand are not equal means as Dr Aziz entered Mosque he meets to Mrs. Moore a kind heart woman and soft spoken lady. They both become friend.

PPC & Organic SEO solutions?

Business solutions for PPC & Organic SEO?

 

Both of above services are well known to Internet professionals. Both gives hits and page rank to website but which one is better. The answer is depended on conditions. Well in my opinion I will prefer which one is cheaper.

 

It’s very simple and up till now very complicated at the same moment in time, as you must put yourself ahead into the commerce and increase earned “Business Popularity” at cheaper rates.

 

I will prefer to outsource my work and concentrate on my Core Business.  This means that if you are busy with numerous projects and important business relationships, you need to find time to become someone that can create an idea, write an article, or just tell the world all about your business and handle your projects with low cost.  This problem can be solved by outsourcing your marketing work.

 

Consider a situation

As we all know that successful business needs publicity and if you are small business owner and can not afford media advertisement or Ads on net. What will you do?  And if so you do that can you afford manual labor?

 

Solutions and alternatives

Human mind is full of ideas; every successful business men always try to save money so that they can reuse his/her capital for further purpose. And the alternative is outsourcing. If we make a check on business surveys we will find western countries are outsourcing there business just because of currency rate. I think it is an affordable system.

 

So if we take Organic SEO or PPC is done by an American it will cost much more. It is very hard for a small business owner to pay to American labor. So what to do?

 

As what is in my knowledge PPC needs a lot of analysis and monitoring before implementing it on particular site and if you take organic SEO too, is not a easy job although getting links are free but you have to provide labor and in western countries labor is not a cheap. The solution is you outsource your marketing work to developing countries and motivates on your core competences.

Content optimization

Steps before Content optimization

 

Content optimization is writing art and evergreen technique that search engines can’t change by there mathematical algorithm but we have to consider about keyword weight and density while writing content.  Content needs to be pre-planned to guarantee it beats in time for particular promotion activity.

 

So if you want to increase the ranking give significant information and content based on your business services so that surfers well understand your business. While writing you has to assume that what would you do if you are a surfer?

 

General Guidelines

 

• Make your content good, easy to read, don’t stick with complex words so that they can fulfill customer lifecycle framework.
• Try to focus on main subject means you have to concentrate on your main business services. Do not let to describe all service in single page rather then your index page. If you are providing Search Engine Optimization services as this services consist of several sub phases

 

• Directory submission
• Search Engine Submission
• Article Posting
• Blog submission
• Website Monitoring etc,

 

• So try to describe all the services on different page. Make each and every page have different title, description and keywords. Write brief for each and every service at least 300 to 400 words on separate page.  Don’t forget to consider keyword density and weight.

 

• As I sentenced above “Think like a Surfer”, consider there feedback and problem. Interrelate there problem with business services. Try to map there demand and just provide them.  Explain them how you can solve there problem by your services.

 

Above words are general instruction and the facts we should consider before writing content or describing your business services. So if you consider the above brief you can boost your customer life cycle.

Smarty Search Engines

As we all know Search Algorithms are based on Mathematical Formula and whenever a webmaster tries to trick the search engine algorithm the result comes in change of Algorithm. The negative impact is making search engine smarty and getting more defender for there Algorithm.

PPC

Consider PPC (Pay per Click), it is a type of advertisement and 20 percent of site owner prefer it because of effective way of driving traffic to your site. In starting when PPC arrive, surfer just click the PPC Ads and few cents goes in Google Account. So what is negative impact for PPC?

Competitors on search keyword phrases fraud PPC for exhaust the others PPC advertisement. They just click on PPC to waste the advertisement money of the owner so that they only remain in competition. So to over come this problem search engine have to advance there algorithm technique to keep away from fraud.

Redirection of page

Valid reasons

• This technique was used to redirect to flash made site these sites are consider less by search engine because they have less textual content.
• When you are upgrading your site and need to sustain previous files.
• You already have a website and want to use your website with your business name or keyword.

As you can examine these points are moral in sense of saving money and sustaining business. A wise person will feel right way to do it but some unethical webmaster practices use it to drive traffic to the site.

Search engine on the other side will punish your site for using Cloaking and will not rank well in search engine algorithm.  

Triangular Links

If we just review few year back link strategy, professional often do three way linking and it is consider the best one way link. But now days search engines are getting smarter and easily track triangular linking. The reason behind 3-way linking was considered best because search engine hate reciprocal links they give no value to the site.  Professionals often have discussion on three way linking but I will say no to this type of linking.

Duplicate site

Duplicate site is another significant problem some webmasters make entire site as a virtual photo copy or mirror sites to gain more than one position in top ranking by placing there duplicated sites at different domain name with slighter changes in site. I have seen many directories with same structure with class C IP address used.

Well search engines have design tool to overcome with such duplication and if they found something, is just removed from there index.

Sandbox theory

Sandbox theory is another update of Google algorithm, letting not to rank new sites or to rank them only for niche keywords ex domain name for some duration. Google Sandbox effect is the Time Delay factor and site is released after a set period of time.

Solution

If you want to be out quickly from the sandbox, the first step is to understand search engines. Understand there terminology and guidelines. Increasing complexity in search algorithm is nothing then a war against black hat SEO, search engines want to provide best result to there clients, avoiding spam and false page rank. Side by side they take strict action when an abuse is encountered.

If you want to boost your website then write quality content that is relevant to your business services and make natural inbound links from related website.

Link Exchange strategy

Every Webmaster or site owner would like to link with quality site so that they can take benefit of linking. So first of all develop a reason on your side, make yourself clear so that other site owners like to link with your site.

One should pay attention to the quality links although site owners don’t. It doesn’t matter they are small in quantity; your links content have to be relevant with your keywords for significant Page Rank Boost. If quantity is such an important factor then every related or not related site inter-linked them selves and collects thousand of links.

In my SEO carrier I would like to observe the following stuff on other site before making a link with particular site.

• First of all I would like to see PR of the site if it matches to my guidelines I will check site PR (Page Rank) is not a fake. Faking PR is an unethical practice in SEO.
• I will check history of the domain and his expiry date. If the site is new and date is expiring I will like to ask for confirmation and make a note of Excel.
• I would like check his IP address is not a duplicate address or not a class C IP address. This is happening when you make a link exchange with directories site owner are running many sites with the help of Class C IP address.
• The site is not redirecting to other site or not a Mirror site.
• The resource page is crawled by search engine and if the resource page have PR it will be best for our site.
• The site has quality content with resource page. By resource page I can take assurance that a particular site believes in linking and my efforts for making a link with that site is not a waste.
1. Notice: - Sometimes what I have noticed that site owner don’t have knowledge of link building if they reply of your email and ask about the link building, so you should make him understand about the benefits of link building.
• Check the link value.
• The page is not full of Advertisement. The resource page should contain good neighborhood.

This is long and best procedure but Company owners who are providing SEO services don’t take this seriously they take Quantity of links not Quality of links. Following Quality links is only a bookish language. This is because Quantity is first preference in business not a quality